| MSN Home My MSN Hotmail Shopping ... Money Web Search: Encarta Enter MSN Encarta Premium Help Home ... Upgrade to Encarta Premium Search Encarta Tasks Find in this article Print Preview Send us feedback Related Items contribution to Canadian literature quotations more... Magazines Search the Encarta Magazine Center for magazine and news articles about this topic Further Reading Davies, Robertson Internet Search Search Encarta about Davies, Robertson Search MSN for Web sites about Davies, Robertson Also on Encarta Liberia: history, geography, and culture Get more Encarta on MSN Need a break? Dozens of fun quizzes Encyclopedia Article from Encarta Davies, Robertson Multimedia 1 item Davies, Robertson (1913-1995), Canadian novelist, essayist, and playwright, best known for three trilogies about Canadian life that are distinguished by their firm moral sense, narrative strength, and elegant use of myth, reality, and illusion. Davies uses a variety of approachesâincluding comedy, satire , myth, coming-of-age fiction, allegory , and historical romanceâto depict Canadian subjects. His fiction is concerned primarily with the survival of the human spirit in his characters, who quest for their own place in the world while trying not to hurt others. Born William Robertson Davies in Thamesville, Ontario, he was educated at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, and at Balliol College, University of Oxford, in Oxford, England. Later he became an actor; the editor and publisher of the | |
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